Scrum Lead / Project Manager

Company: INSPYR Solutions
Location: Santa Monica
Posted on: May 11, 2025

Job Description:

Role: Sr. Technical Project Manager

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Industry: Entertainment
Location: Santa Monica, CA (4 days per week on site)
Duration: 18+ month contract
Rate Range: $80-$88/hr
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

Description: The Scrum Lead / Project Manager will be an integral part of the Media Platform Program Management team. Team creates products, platforms, and innovations for the company by driving the strategic development and use of technology, building scalable systems and products to empower our businesses and engage consumers. With global scale, local presence, and deep technological excellence, the team help optimize technology, platforms, and resources, while bringing creative ideas to life and creating industry-shaping approaches.
This is a contractor position within the Program Management Organization. The Scrum Lead / Project Manager will work with Product and various Engineering teams to facilitate and support Agile ceremonies and coach scrum teams on Agile best practices and principles to enable the delivery of high value product increments to our users.
Successful candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on concurrent implementations across matrixed teams both inside and outside the department.
They must be capable of clearly communicating schedules, risks, issues, and processes to a variety of business, creative, and technical audiences. They must be able to partner with other project managers and technical leads outside their area to coordinate work, deliverables, and schedules.
Lead agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, sprint plannings, backlog refinements, retrospectives, and demos.
Provide support using a servant-leadership style, facilitate discussions and decision making in meetings, and resolve team impediments at multiple levels of an organization.
Coach teams in their journey to Agile, support their self-organization and agile methodology knowledge growth.
Use tools and techniques to support the team in shipping high quality software increments such as User Stories, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing and Burndown charts.
Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on Team / Project progress and quality and know how to leverage those metrics to identify needs Manage projects that impact the scrum team, including identifying upstream dependencies and developing project plans/timelines for project deliverables.
Forecast and communicate delivery times and dependent scope that other software engineering teams depend on a timely delivery.
Facilitate coordination with other teams to align on technical decisions and dependencies for project deliverables.
Holds functional managers accountable for their teams' deliverables.
Identifies and manages issues and risks and drives decision making.
Communicates team and project status and schedule updates

Basic Qualifications: A minimum of 4 years of experience in technical program management and software application development.
Demonstrated experience as a Scrum Lead for cross-functional agile teams.
Experience understanding technical architecture and technical dependencies related to service integrations and databases.
Demonstrated experience as a Technical Project Manager in a large, matrix organization.
Working knowledge of Jira/Confluence supporting agile methodologies.
Experience with the software development life cycle.
Desire to learn and take on additional responsibilities as appropriate.
Anticipate working with teams on East or West Coast hours, with flexibility to work outside of regular office hours to accommodate important meetings in different time zones.

Required Education: BS STEM + 10 yrs experience/ No Degree=17Years experience

About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.

INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities

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